#TeenWritersProject

WRITING IS BEING ERASED!

Schools reduce it to test prep. Recreation centers trade it for sports and gaming, and publishers publish books for teens, not by teens.

But at #TeenWritersProject, we've built a literary ecosystem that helps us give teen writers something different: a place to write, a platform to publish, a community to connect with, and opportunities to work.

WRITE. PUBLISH. CONNECT. WORK.

Since 2018, #TeenWritersProject has given teens the chance to write, be published, and get paid. Through hybrid writing workshops, a literary magazine, a culture magazine, a podcast, a teen conference, and workforce development, teens don’t just learn writing, they’re published, paid, and prepared for careers in writing and publishing. 

Our Impact: They're not waiting to become writers. They're doing the work now.

• 250+ writing workshops hosted on/offline
• 3,000+ teens served (published and paid)
• $112,800+ teens compensated
• 60% more teens supplement their income with writing
• 72% more students passed the essay portion of standarized exams
• 85% of workshop attendees recieved college scholarships 
• 90% of those we serve are from low-income communities
• 100% of our Editorial Board accepted into college writing programs (NYU, SMU, USC, UNT, etc.) 

But we don't measure impact by numbers. We measure it by what they left with: a byline, a publication, a portfolio, a paycheck, and proof that their words mattered.

Your North Texas Giving Day gift helps us keep opening these doors.

Our work begins with the belief that teen writing deserves to exist beyond the classroom. We see writing as more than an assignment or academic skill, it is how young people document their lives, examine the world around them, create culture, and leave a record of what it means to be young right now.

We create opportunities for teens to move their words from notebooks, classrooms, and screens into publications, public conversations, and professional spaces where their work can be read, shared, credited, and paid.

We want teens to know that what they have to say has value now, not someday when they become adults. So, this North Texas Giving Day, we're raising $25,000 to keep the opportunities going.

• $50 = pays a contributor.
• $130 = prints 10 magazines.
• $285 = prints 50 magazines.
• $300 = pays an editor for a month.
• $450 = pays a designer for a month.
• $800 = pays all 16 contributors in one issue.
• $1,600 = pays all contributors in both magazines.

#TWP is our promise to the next generation of storytellers that if they want to use their voices, we'll be their microphones.

Your investment gives teen writers the tools, opportunities, and professional support to write, publish, connect, and work, so will you help us keep it on?